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It would be interesting. It basically comes down to how long systems can remain active with no human interaction... that and power. The upside is a severe drop in traffic. I can imagine that large data centers would respond by automatically shutting down vast numbers of servers which would greatly conserve power.They might respond by ordering backup fuel quickly enough to run minimally for months. Of course the power grid would also experience less load which might prevent it's total failure... at least for a time. The safest place to be might in fact be a data center. Google inherits the world?

It's a "repost" that is from /r/zombies! It's from a few months ago but the creator made a new "post" once a day adding on to the news on the disease. It's so chilling seeing all of them together in one album though!

I have never actually been so paranoid and scared of a z-day in my life. I probably seem like a fucking idiot, but this has scared me enough to make me be more serious about my survival plans and health.

Nope don't feel like an idiot. A while back I was talking to one of my teachers about what would happen if our infrastructure collapsed I.e. no power, grocery stores etc, and how unprepared everyone is. When I saw the $61,000 generator.... That struck a nerve. The whole thing was very surreal. There were a few key things:
Seeing major websites in their current form
Seeing major websites just cease working
Seeing the YouTube videos with just one comment (I wasn't brave enough to watch)
Seeing the comprehension of the effects, like phone service being out in rural areas. You could only imagine what was going on there.
Seeing the text message at the end with the pic of the snow. The loneliness of that person... Fuck.

You really should go back and play those videos. They are not footage so much as an accompanying soundtrack. Basically you should get through the number of images between one link and the next in time to play the next vid, providing a complete audio-visual experience. Extremely cool.

There's this book I've read a few times called One Second After, that's basically a what-if scenario about what would probably happen if high-altitude nuclear explosions were set off at specific places, essentially wiping out every electronic device in the US.

While the book is fiction (obviously), it painted a pretty disturbing picture for just how quickly the country would collapse in that scenario.

As a biologist, I agree that they're likely outside the realm of possibility, but the concept of a pandemic is very real. It's very important that we stay one step ahead of evolution by continuing to survey zoonotic diseases of increasing prevalence, predict the mutations that will allow them to spread to humans, and vaccinate before nature figures it out.

If you'd like, you can go here or here to give Vidzilla, the creator of this masterpiece some love. 'Tis a shame his original post didn't gain as much popularity as this one, but then again r/zombies is a much smaller sub than r/WTF.

so I just wanted to outline the cataclysmic event of a "zombie apocalypse" in my home state of South Dakota.
Day 1--unlucky test subject gets some sort of viral infection from an experimental drug
Day 2--He dies of fever and multiple system failure
--shortly thereafter he awakens with a raging attitude and goes after the first flesh he can find
--unbeknownst to mr. zombie, he is in South Dakota and everyone is armed to the teeth and his brain gets blown all the way from the Missoura' River to Mount Rushmore
the end
moral of the story--shoot first ask questions later

Day 2: subject awakens. Driven by a primal desire to feed subject begins to hunt. Whether by suppressed memory or pure instinct, it begins to follow the nearest road at slightly below a normal human walking pace.

The State of Emergency alarm is incredibly creepy. It went off a few months ago in San Diego when the power when out and there is something about it that just makes it feel like something terrible is about to happen.

God that was amazing. Brilliant attention to detail, engrossing, and just damn well done. I can tell you or whoever created it took a lot of time on the whole project and just wanted to let you know I was really impressed.

I was in the middle of writing a little short story about the zombie apocalypse when I take a break to check reddit and this pops up. Now i'm terrified but also motivated to finish the story. Definitely amazing work, whoever the original "author" is.

Damn son... Damn. That was... Incredible, To say the least, I am completely stunned at how well thought out and done this is, and I have to say I was crying at the end. Just wow, makes me want to rethink survival plans and how to make it through the "end time" as it were...

I am fucking retarded. I'm afraid of zombies, thanks to my bro scarring me with Resident Evil when I was little, and I'm trying to wind down so I can sleep. Solution: Read Creepy-Pasta. Well, looks like I'll be lurking all night now...

they were imgur or bit.ly short codes to downloads (also password hints and the like) these were posted in realtime starting jan 1 this year by vidzilla. really good stuff to follow while it was happening.

I really want to upvote this more than once, but since Reddit won't let me, I'm going to throw my mounds of love and respect for this collection onto the comments page. SO well done. I really dug that, very moving.

This is, without a doubt, one of the most chilling and realistic interpretations of a modern zombie apocalypse scenario I have ever encountered. I applaud the original author for his/her creativity and attention to detail - this is a rare treat in the sea of sub-par zombie fiction.

Any news on the little password references in these pictures? The first youtube video said password: day14, and the second was password: countdown. There were a few codes like ymT9Hv and ydHDuq placed pretty conspicuously in the pictures. I'm not sure what the codes refer to but it seems to me the passwords could be to archive files, like Valve did with their early marketing campaign with all the radios placed around in Portal.

This really shook me, especially that last pic. A couple weeks ago I went ski touring and slept in a snowcave just like the one in the very last pic.
Seeing the snow shovel freaked me the fuck out for some reason.